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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the creature communicate?

2. How does the creature represent itself?

3. In what church do Frank and Gordy find the priest?

4. Who does Fletcher hear about on the radio?

5. Why did Kale kill his wife and son?

Short Essay Questions

1. What brainstorm does Sara have that she is afraid to voice out loud, but that the others sense hope in?

2. Why is Gordy so disturbed when he and Frank go into Our Lady of the Mountains Church?

3. What do Copperfield's men discover in the sewer system as they are running power cables?

4. What does Flyte share with the six remaining survivors when he gets to Snowfield?

5. What is so unusual about the conditions at the Sheffield home that Frank and Gordy ask Bryce to come and look?

6. What happens after the helicopter drops the Biosan-4 and they spray the first representation that the A.E. sends them?

7. Who does the creature promise to spare, and why?

8. How does the creature manage to get to Gordy on a personal level?

9. How does word of the situation in Snowfield leak despite Hammond's best efforts to stop it?

10. What is the creature unable to use and how is that brought to the survivor's attention?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens to Fletcher Kale in the woods outside of Jake's cabin? Who arrives first? While Fletcher is trying to decide what to do, what does he see walking out of the woods and what is strange about it? How does the situation become even stranger in the next few minutes? Where do the new arrivals herd him into? Who is waiting there, sitting calmly and serenely beside an ever changing mass? What does this person tell Kale, and how does Kale respond?

Essay Topic 2

What is consistent about most of the bodies that are found in Snowfield? How do they defy any normal logic that as a doctor, Jennifer might apply? What is immediately noticeable about most of these bodies? Which ones are different in condition in the town and where are they found? How are those three people killed? Why is it likely that the Liebermann's bodies are never found? How is that consistent with the rest of the missing townspeople?

Essay Topic 3

Who comes to Jennifer and Lisa's rescue? What secret does one of the rescuers have and why is it especially significant now? What is it about this secret that makes him fearful and how does it call into question his choice of profession? What is the first stop the group makes? What examination is made that is out of character under normal circumstances and why does it seem especially necessary now?

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